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How to Choose Strings for Your Resonator Guitar
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There are a thousand different strings you could use for your resonator. Everything from cryogenically treated strings to strings shot into space to strings blessed by a shaman in a rainforest in South America. Unfortunately...
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Mule Radio - July 26
These instruments are music tools and people have been putting them to work. Videos of people using these guitars to inspire and push their playing is my greatest joy. Thats why I started Mule and why we continue to do...
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Tap the Red Cane Whirlwind
Zach came up to Mule HQ for the tailgate before Jason Isbell's show. Zach has a Mule and the thing with customers is that a lot of times they end up being friends. "In Grateful Cooperative Labor" is on the certificates that...
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Burn the Boat
If there’s something you want to accomplish or a person you want to become then you must commit to doing something you’re currently incapable of. “Burn the boat” was the commitment to learning that started Mule, now written...
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MODEST MAVIS
The reason we do this is to get people inspirational musical tools. Seeing what comes out of combining our work with yours is our greatest joy.
The Modest Mavis is the work horse version of our standard Mavis....
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The Modest Mavis is the work horse version of our standard Mavis....
The Mule Bus
The Mule Bus has been wrapped and we are getting along just fine. Just need to finish the flooring, install some rear seats and bed and then we are ready to take this show on the road. Mule has always been about what has...
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At Mule HQ: Jeffrey Foucault
Last week I found myself at Mule HQ five feet away from Jeff as I filmed him play this song he wrote for Kelly Joe Phelps- the man responsible for inspiring these guitars and my friendship with Jeff.
About 15 years ago I...
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Bourbon and Beyond Festival Day 2
My wife dropped me off at the staff entrance to the festival. A man got out of the van in front of me with a lunchbox and stopped and turned to wave to his dad. His dad was probably 70, the man was probably around my age and...
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Nels Cline and Jazzfest
I wish I could tell 16 year old me, jamming to I Am Trying to Break Your Heart in his parents’ minivan that 25 years later he’d be in the fantastic city of New Orleans watching Nels Cline play it on a guitar he made right...
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Charlie Hunter Mule
Can I geek out a bit? If it wasn’t for Charlie Hunter and then Kelly Joe Phelps I wouldn’t be making steel resos and casters, 700 people wouldn’t be making music on them and you and I wouldn’t know each other.
I got...
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Nat Myers videos coming soon
https://youtu.be/EIKd3GrWCOc
I first heard Nat Myers when Kris Hammond - affectionately known around the shop as the Mule Queen - sent me an instagram video of his. He was in his room, long hair bunched up underneath a...
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John Smith - “River”
John Smith playing “River” on his Mavis merry Muletide!
https://www.muleresophonic.com/videos/2044217...
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Bourbon and Beyond
The Mule Bus is going to load up and head out to @bourbonandbeyond festival in Louisville middle of September. There’s going to be a Mule player there almost every day with The Killers, The Black Keys, and Bruno Mars. Also…...
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Nat Myers Videos
NAT F****** Y’ALL
Videos incoming. Making these instruments have connected me with more wonderful humans on the earth than I could have imagined. I hope you’ve made some friends through them too. -Matt...
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Videos incoming. Making these instruments have connected me with more wonderful humans on the earth than I could have imagined. I hope you’ve made some friends through them too. -Matt...
Jeffrey Foucault - 4am by Richard Bruckner
JEFFREY FOUCAULT - 4 A.M. (RICHARD BUCKNER) from Jeffrey Foucault on Vimeo.
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The Mighty Colby!
The fella next to me is the mighty Colby - the newest member of the Mule Team. And his mom, who valiantly drove him across the country to Michigan. He has been enlisted from the hallowed halls of the Roberto-Venn School of...
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Merry Christmas y'all!
Better late than never... Merry Christmas from my family to yours!
https://youtu.be/5RWhqrOHR9w
Matt...
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Song circles
Why do I make guitars? These ones, specifically.
You. Don't freak out, it's nothing personal. It's just that when you're sitting in a song circle in the Shenandoah Valley and everyone is belting "Paradise" while playing...
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You. Don't freak out, it's nothing personal. It's just that when you're sitting in a song circle in the Shenandoah Valley and everyone is belting "Paradise" while playing...






















